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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University
Kent State
BGSU Takes Game One of KSU Series, 10-8
May 10, 2002 | Baseball
May 10, 2002
Kent, Ohio - Bowling Green scored the two go-ahead runs in the top of the ninth inning and held on for a 10-8 victory over host Kent State on Friday afternoon. The win moved BGSU within two and one-half games of the Mid-American Conference East Division leaders, Kent State.
With the score tied in the top of the ninth inning, 8-8, Kelly Hunt hit an RBI-triple down the right-field line to score Tim Newell from third base for a 9-8 Falcon lead. Newell began the inning with a double to right field and moved to third on a wild pitch by KSU reliever Gus Hlebovy. Shortstop Nick Elrod supplied the insurance run with a sacrifice fly to left field, plating Hunt, for the 10-8 lead.
Closer Neil Schmitz, who had entered with one out in the eighth inning, closed the door in the bottom of the ninth frame, picking up his third win of the season (3-1). He gave up three hits, no runs and struckout one.
BGSU (24-19 overall, 12-6 MAC) entered the eighth inning down 7-4 to the Flashes. But, the Falcons plated four runs on four hits in the inning to pull ahead by one, 8-7. A two-RBI single by Len Elias and a two-run single by Jeff Warnock put the Falcons ahead.
KSU (30-14 overall, 15-4 MAC) knotted the score in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Andy Hudak led the BGSU attack by finishing 3-for-5 (home run, double, single) with two RBIs and two runs scored. Warnock was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.
BGSU continues its four-game series on Saturday, May 11, with a doubleheader at 1 p.m. against KSU.
